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Welcome! This is a place to post my musings about Christianity, Science, Theology, Philosophy and how it all fits together. I hope to answer questions that people pose to me about the Christian faith, as well as post the answers that I find to questions about my faith that I encounter.
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For two
years and a few months I have maintained and written this blog with the intent
of answering the questions that would get in the way of people coming to the
gospel. What I have failed to do I think as a writer is to address what exactly
the gospel of Christ is. Now there are a multitude of questions that surround
various aspects of the fall of man and the ultimate need for redemption through
the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, but I won’t be covering those here. What I
would like to do here is to give a general overview of the core story of the
Christian doctrine. That is, that we are a fallen people in need of redemption,
and ultimately we can find no other redemption than by accepting the gift of
grace and salvation offered by the Son of God, Jesus.
So like
every good story, we have a beginning. In the beginning God made the universe
we inhabit, everything from the subatomic particles to the planets and stars we
observe at night. He made man …

This is
one that I imagine may cause a bit of a split opinion, but with all of this
attention over open and concealed carry and what weapons American citizens
should be allowed to possess, a question has plagued me that I hope to give my
thoughts on here. That question is: should Christians be arming themselves with
firearms and fighting for the right to do so? Now I am not advocating for a
violent uprising in which we establish our own Christian government or
something of that nature. I merely want to reflect on the relationship
Christians should have with the second amendment and the world around us.
The
first thing to ask is if the Bible ever talked about defending oneself or loved
ones or situations where weapons are used. Now obviously the Bible will not
specifically mention firearms, but we can speak of weapons in a general sense
here. There are plenty of battles mentioned during the Old Testament, as well
as an example story of non-warfare batt…

Recently
I have been blessed to become a full time member of my church’s praise team.
Previously I rotated in when either our drummer or bass player was out. I was
also playing with the youth band at the time. Now during all of this I had a
transition period where I was stepping down from the youth band to allow a
youth member to be blessed to lead worship. During this period I was wondering
what I would be doing now that music wasn’t going to be a constant. I admit, I
enjoy playing and getting the recognition, but I was also convicted that I
should be deflecting all glory to God so that people can see him through me.
This also got me to thinking about all of the people that had to be present in
the Bible since the kings and prophets we study had to have someone to talk to.
Did they ever feel unimportant in what they were doing?
What I
would like to do here is explore two aspects of feeling unimportant in the
church. The first I have already kind of co…